Interesting gun, click pic to enlarge.
Posted on 01/29/2015 1:45:04 AM PST by WhiskeyX
In fact, Moscow’s latest diplomatic offensive to get a treaty banning weapons in space may be shot down by one of the proposed pact's little-noticed provisions: Nobody else should get to put weapons in space, but Russia gets to keep the ones it already has.
Cosmonauts regularly carry handguns on their Soyuz spacecraft — and actually, that's not unreasonable. There are practical and historical justifications.
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Interesting gun, click pic to enlarge.
“Why the 7 year old article?”
There has been a lot of speculation the past year over the fate of the astronauts aboard the ISS (International Space Station) and Russian spacecraft in the event of hostilities between Russia and NATO. There are also the recent United Nations actions with respect to armaments. It’s now timely to remember how the Russians have kept themselves armed on their spaceflights regardless of the treaties regarding armaments in space.
Fire that thing in zero-g and they’ll find your frozen corpse orbiting Saturn in a couple hundred years.
“Fire that thing in zero-g and they’ll find your frozen corpse orbiting Saturn in a couple hundred years.”
Not if you are braced with the target background solid enough to absorb the bullet/s.
Russian cosmonauts have also field tested a handheld laser pistol/s in space. They use a pyrotechnic to energize the laser for blinding spacecraft sensors.
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